Word: mccaffrey
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...these wars on abstractions have pretty much been failures," says Steven Pinker, a cognitive scientist at Harvard. "It's a bit of a conceptual mismatch. If your roof leaks, you don't have a war against rain." Often those waging the wars request a name change. Drug czar Barry McCaffrey, who fought in Vietnam and the Persian Gulf, called the war metaphor "inadequate" for drugs in 1996: "This isn't going to be won by anybody's army." Former State Department official David Long told the New York Times in 1998 that flu would be a better analogy for terrorism...
Meghan E. Grizzle ’07 is a linguistics concentrator in Leverett House. Ryan M. McCaffrey ’07 is a biochemical sciences concentrator in Quincy House. Helen V. Renton ’08 lives in Canaday Hall...
...It’s an issue that definitely needs some discussion,” said Ryan M. McCaffrey ‘07, who attended the debate. “When you don’t have that much time to talk, you don’t really get down to what the debate is really about...
...surprised that the pro-choice side refused to address the moral side of the debate,” McCaffrey said later. “I thought they could’ve addressed it in a much better fashion...
...Maureen McCaffrey added 14 points, and the squad’s sophomores also capitalized on their chance to shine. Sophomore Christiana Lackner chipped in a pair of career highs—seven points and seven rebounds—and sophomore Kyle Dalton added six points...